Practical XMPP

Lloyd Watkin has over 10 years experience building for the web. A great believer in open source and open standards he has contributed to, started, and led many successful open source projects as well as being an international conference speaker. Lloyd was introduced to XMPP in 2012 and hasn't looked back. Its open standard base and the ability to code clients, servers, components in any language leads to a very diverse and healthy environment. Its relevance only seems to increase as new technologies (not imagined at the time of creation) come into existence.Watkin Steven :

Lloyd Watkin has over 10 years of experience in building for the Web. A great believer in open source and open standards, he has contributed to, started, and led many successful open source projects and is also an international conference speaker. Lloyd was knowingly introduced to XMPP in 2012 and hasn't looked back. Its open standard base and the ability to code clients, servers, components in any language leads to a very diverse and healthy environment. Its relevance only seems to increase as new technologies (not imagined at the time of creation) come into existence.Koelle David :

David Koelle is a Principal Software Engineer at Charles River Analytics Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has employed XMPP on projects to facilitate collaboration and shared situational awareness among distant teams. David is also the author of JFugue, a popular open source music programming API for Java and other JVM languages, and he is a co-organizer for the Boston Android Meetup. David has delivered several award-winning talks at high-profile conferences including JavaOne and SXSW. In addition to his technical work in software engineering and systems engineering, he finds opportunities to mentor engineers to help them grow in their careers and recognize the value that proactive leadership can bring to engineers and their environments. David is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).